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My Thoughts on “Inuyasha: The Final Act”

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Note:  This was originally written and posted on DeviantART on Monday October 23, 2023. This is the last Inuyasha post that I wrote on DeviantART before I watched Yashahime and started reviewing that series. It’ll also be the last Inuyasha related post that I’ll post or repost for a while, unless there really is a third season to Yashahime , or they make another new Inuyasha series. Whether it’s a new spinoff or another sequel or even a straight reboot. They’ve been rebooting a lot of old anime lately. I don’t remember if I said this in the review of Season 2 Part 2 of Yashahime , but I would like to see an Inuyasha series that just centered around Inuyasha and his daughter Moroha. It wouldn’t have to be a full series, I was just thinking something along the lines of a miniseries. Miniseries are pretty popular nowadays. Hell, even so-called “full series” are really miniseries now. Either that, or an OVA or an ONA. I think that would be pretty cool. I even thought of the perfec...

My Thoughts on “Akira” (1988)

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  (This is a wallpaper image for Akira (1988).)  It is time for Neo-Tokyo to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.. I still don’t know why it was written as an acronym, or even what that acronym stands for if anything, but that’s how it’s written. I just finished my review of  Man of Steel , and it’s time to me to tackle Akira (1988), the seminal anime movie for a lot of people. For a lot of people, especially those who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, this was the thing that got them into anime. It was either this, or Ghost in the Shell (1995), or Ninja Scroll 🥷📜 , or Dragonball Z , or Yu-Gi-Oh! , or Pokémon , or Sailor Moon 🌙 if they were girls ♀︎ or gay boys ⚣, or straight boys ⚤♂︎ who were too embarrassed to admit they liked watching Sailor Moon 🌙 and other magical girl ♀︎ shows. It wasn’t for me, the thing that got me into anime was Cowboy Bebop …I think.    I started watching anime around the late 2010s and early 2020s, and my memory of that time is a bit fuzzy, but I d...